The challenge of viral infections to human reproduction

Precongress Course 12

 Special Interest Group Safety and Quality in ART


Course coordinators
Special Interest Group Safety and Quality in ART


Course type
Advanced 

 

Course description
Viral diseases are an ever-changing challenge to modern medicine. In this course, we will try to answer questions from everyday practice such as how to detect viral diseases and, once diagnosed, how to counsel the infertile couple regarding their infertility treatment, the health of their children and their own general health. The course will offer an update to our understanding in the process of immunisation in woman of reproductive age. We will focus not only on well-known infections such as HIV but also on rare viral infections. Last but not least, the course will provide an update on the new ESHRE guidelines on viral diseases

 

Target audience
Gynecologists, embryologists, nurses and basic scientists

 

Educational needs and expected outcomes 

The course is intented to fill the current gaps in knowledge and practice regarding viral diseases and human reproduction. The areas targeted in the program aim to expand the knowledge on viral diseases of reproductive endocrinologists, embryologists and paramedics. At the end of the course, participants should be able to:

  • describe current epidemiology of viral disease affecting reproduction
  • list the changes in immune response in reproductive years and pregnancy
  • describe how immunisation can lead to better reproductive health
  • implement current diagnostic tools into daily practice
  • counsel the infertile couple regarding the effect of viral diseases on treatment and the health of offspring
  • implement the most effective laboratory procedures in patients with viral diseases
  • have a broader epidemiological view on viral diseases

Programme


Sunday 23 June 2019

Chairs
Ioana Adina Rugescu, Romania
09:00 - 09:30
Immune response in reproductive age and during pregnancy
Augusto Enrico Semprini, Italy
09:30 - 09:45
Discussion
09:45 - 10:15
A special target for vaccination: Women in reproductive years
Augusto Enrico Semprini, Italy
10:15 - 10:30
Discussion
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Zdravka Veleva, Finland
Augusto Enrico Semprini, Italy
11:00 - 11:30
Diagnosic tools and the management of couples with unknown or ascertained viral diseases
Massimo Galli, Italy
11:30 - 11:45
Discussion
11:45 - 12:15
How new treatments of viral diseases will have an impact on counseling of ART patients
Pietro Vernazza, Switzerland
12:15 - 12:30
Discussion
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch break
Arianna D'Angelo, United Kingdom
Alessandra Alteri, Italy
13:30 - 14:00
Managing infertility in a sero-discordant hiv couple
Duru Sushil Shah, India
14:00 - 14:15
Discussion
14:15 - 14:45
Treatment strategies in other viral diseases
Carole Gilling-Smith, United Kingdom
14:45 - 15:00
Discussion
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Kelly Tilleman, Belgium
15:30 - 16:00
Update on the ESHRE guideline on viral diseases
Edgar Vasile Mocanu, Ireland
16:00 - 16:15
Discussion
16:15 - 16:45
The changing epidemiology picture of viral diseases
Vainav Patel, India
16:45 - 17:00
Discussion